Glassybaby

Glassybaby founder Lee Rhodes set up her Seattle-based candle holder business with the help of local glass-blowers. Once a small organization, word of mouth and a 22% stake purchase by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have given the company legs. Today Glassybaby ships all over the world and is bringing in $8 million annually, and a sizable portion of that money is donated to charities (10% of revenue goes towards worthy causes).